Just like everything else in 2020, the North Carolina General Assembly is adapting to changing circumstances rapidly and adjusting legislative plans fairly often. At the moment, it appears that they wrapped up business for the summer and plan to return … Read more
North Carolina law requires all persons to comply with communicable disease control measures prescribed by the Commission for Public Health, an administrative rule-making body. G.S. 130A-144(f). If a person fails to comply with required control measures, public health officials may … Read more
In the most recent legislative session, the General Assembly amended the state’s emergency management act to impose new publication requirements on county and city state of emergency declarations (S.L. 2020-83, Sec. 11.7). Prior to enactment of HB593 which amended GS … Read more
Chapter 160D became fully effective statewide on July 1, 2021. Chapter 160D was enacted in July 2019 with a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021. The date was delayed in order to give cities and counties time to … Read more
Under state law, all monies collected or received by employees or officials of a local government or public authority (collectively, local unit) must be deposited daily into an official depository or with a properly licensed and recognized cash collection service. … Read more
Trafficking, like health disparities, targets marginalized groups. The equation of human trafficking involves three types of participants: People who are vulnerable People who arrange and profit from the trafficking People who are customers The Covid-19 pandemic is generating new vulnerabilities … Read more
Interim budgets may provide breathing room for local governments wary of setting their 2020-2021 property tax before they know the full extent of how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the state and local economies. But interim budgets are not without … Read more
On May 4, changes to North Carolina’s communicable disease confidentiality law went into effect, including important modifications to the parts of the law that permit information to be released to law enforcement officials. Amendments to G.S. 130A-143 were included in … Read more
On May 6, 2020, the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management delivered a letter to counties with the amount of federal funds that will be distributed to each county from the “Coronavirus Relief Fund” (CRF) pursuant to the … Read more
In response to COVID-19, the legislature adopted two comprehensive bills that touch on a variety of areas, including a few local government finance-related issues. One of those issues is the annual budget ordinance adoption process. This post explains the normal … Read more